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Enlightenment is like the moon reflected on the water. — Dogen
Enlightenment is like the moon reflected on the water.
Dogen
The flow of the river is ceaseless, and its water is never the same. — Kamo no Chōmei
The flow of the river is ceaseless, and its water is never the same.
Kamo no Chōmei
Nothing in the world is softer than water, yet nothing is better at overcoming the hard and strong. — Lao Tzu
Nothing in the world is softer than water, yet nothing is better at overcoming the hard and strong.
Lao Tzu
I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. — Kabir
I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty.
Kabir
The tendency of man's nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downwards. — Mencius
The tendency of man's nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downwards.
Mencius
Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. — Wangari Maathai
Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing.
Wangari Maathai
Kinship with all creatures of the earth, sky, and water was a real and active principle. — Luther Standing Bear
Kinship with all creatures of the earth, sky, and water was a real and active principle.
Luther Standing Bear
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. Be water, my friend. — Bruce Lee
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. Be water, my friend.
Bruce Lee
Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good. — Gautama Buddha
Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.
Gautama Buddha
The morning glory has taken my well bucket — I must ask the neighbors for water. — Chiyo-ni
The morning glory has taken my well bucket — I must ask the neighbors for water.
Chiyo-ni
People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. — Thich Nhat Hanh
People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. — Bruce Lee
Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.
Bruce Lee
A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water. — Eleanor Roosevelt
A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.
Eleanor Roosevelt
With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live. — Sylvia Earle
With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live.
Sylvia Earle
The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable. — Rabindranath Tagore
The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.
Rabindranath Tagore
Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. — Leonardo da Vinci
Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. — Bruce Lee
Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water.
Bruce Lee
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